Object number
77/235
Description
Slaughterman's axe with a wooden handle with string binding and the blade is rectangular, with one edge sharpened and bound into the handle.
This is a slaughterman's axe. It has a long wooden handle with string binding and the blade is rectangular, with one edge sharpened and bound into the handle.
Physical description
1 axe: metal, wood
Archival history
MERL Catalogue Form (temporary) – Axe, Slaughterman's // No 3 On head of Axe // Handle: heavy, square cross section. Head: rectangular, one edge sharpened, bound into the handle // Used by Button, Butcher, Lonf Ditton, Surrey, Use: Slaughter of animals // gift Bryan Woodriff, Centre for Industrial Archaeology'
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